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by revscat 6y ago
We would be better off with laws against lying… if they could be made to work. But they cannot, so we must live with lies being legal.
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by revscat 6y ago
I used fish for two years or so, and recently switched back to zsh, mainly because Fish is too slow to load, and this is not something the developers are willing to fix. The problem I had was that I needed to load a “bare” shell, without pl
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by revscat 6y ago
This is trash. If there is a point, the author does not seem to know how to get to it, nor support it.
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by revscat 6y ago
The decreasing amount of birdsong gives credence.
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by revscat 6y ago
This has been my experience. For the majority of applications that are developed using Ruby —- which means Rails —- the Ruby universe is performance and mature. I’m keeping an eye out for what happens in the Rust community, but for now Rail
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by revscat 6y ago
This response is common, but flawed. At root it is a “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Behind that, it argues, or at least heavily implies, that the only “true” free market is one wholly unburdened by regulation. Such a thing does not exist outsi
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by revscat 6y ago
The traditional view of libertarian capitalists where government, democratic or otherwise, has no moral validity when regulating or prohibiting various forms commerce, falls on its face when confronted with the real world. The free market w
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by revscat 6y ago
And Mongo is even worse. You can easily change document structures, but now you have inconsistent data over time.
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by revscat 6y ago
Citation needed.
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by revscat 6y ago
You can see the point though, right? I’m personally ok with the trackpad, but compare it with the “nipple” from the old IBM laptops. You could scan across the entire screen with the barest movement of your finger. The minimalism in that des
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by revscat 6y ago
I don’t hate it, I just ignore it. Most of the time my laptop is closed and attached to my monitor, so it’s unavailable. On the rare occasions I use it as a laptop, I might use the Touch Bar to adjust the volume, but not much else, if anyth
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by revscat 6y ago
Reality is whatever Conservatives tell each other it is.
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by revscat 6y ago
I fear that the measures needed to see power properly transferred will soon require remedies that the judiciary is unequipped for.
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by revscat 6y ago
This is irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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by revscat 6y ago
While the effort is noble, facts unfortunately will not matter. There is a coup underway, no matter how impolite it is to say so. Doubt is being sowed in the presidential election results, more so every day. The ruling party realized some t
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by revscat 6y ago
I’ve noticed this as well. Tesla here is treated like Microsoft was on Slashdot in the 2000s.
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by revscat 6y ago
They did this because they believe Democrats are conspiring against them. Conspiracy theories are anti-American.
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by revscat 6y ago
It’s fascinating to me that the mindshare that was once taken up by Perl seems to slowly but surely be replaced by Ruby. This is a positive, IMO. Compared to Perl, Ruby is easier to write and — more importantly — read.
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by revscat 6y ago
Sure does feel like it to me.
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by revscat 6y ago
Your assertion that they are “dead last” remains ridiculous given the millions of self-driving miles their cars have driven.
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by revscat 6y ago
And yet there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of drivers who use Tesla’s Autopilot every day, myself included, without incident and to great benefit.
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by revscat 6y ago
I just drove from Dallas to southwestern Colorado and back. Of that, I estimate I drove ~15% of the entire miles driven. The rest was the car driving itself.
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by revscat 6y ago
Free speech absolutism is destructive. Facebook is an example of this. Climate change denialism is another. Holocaust denial is another.
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by revscat 6y ago
And using its super advanced HTML5 machine learning and Nikola's patented "3rd Law 2.0", it takes that gravity and stores it in a regenerative fuel cell in the battery for energy. It does this by redirecting existing inertia
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by revscat 6y ago
I wonder the same thing. I first noticed this back when the iPhone came out. At the time, there were frequent posts from guys like this one complaining about Apple/Jobs fanboys, and the language they used was very similar to what you s
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by revscat 6y ago
Read the article. It discusses how they tested with the same road, and were able to put an SUV in neutral and achieve a cruising speed of 53mph using that same road.
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by revscat 6y ago
This is amazing.
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by revscat 6y ago
In the abstract police are necessary. In today’s America, with the police as they actually exist today, they are very much not necessary, and are a drain on public safety, social order, and personal liberty.
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by revscat 6y ago
When conducting business this is more trouble, and causes more discomfort, than it’s worth.
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by revscat 6y ago
Trump is the head of the government. In his role, he is attempting to control private enterprise (and failing). It is laughable that you think him a victim given that he has the full force of the federal government at his beck and call. The

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